NBA TV’s San Antonio Spurs vs. Los Angeles Lakers Telecast Delivers
Most-Viewed NBA Fan Night Ever
NBA TV’s NBA Fan Night presented by Sprint telecast will feature the Brooklyn Nets visiting the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 10:30 p.m. ET. The NBA Fan Night game selection was based on fan voting via NBA.com, the NBA Facebook page, Yahoo.com, NBA.com mobile web, mobile GameTime App and Twitter.
Host Ernie Johnson and analysts Chris Webber and Greg Anthony will offer analysis during a 30-minute AutoTrader.com Pregame Show prior to this week’s NBA Fan Night telecast at 10 p.m. Johnson, Webber and Anthony will also provide updates at times during the game telecast, along with halftime and GameTime presented by Hyundai post-game coverage.
NBA TV national satellite and telecommunications providers include:
| Satellite/Telco |
SD Channel Number |
HD Channel Number |
| DirecTV |
216 |
216 |
| Dish |
156 |
156 |
| Verizon |
89 |
589 |
| AT&T |
632 |
1632 |
Last week’s NBA Fan Night presented by Sprint telecast featuring the Lakers and San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 10:30 p.m. ET averaged 739,000 total viewers to become the network’s most-viewed NBA Fan Night ever. The telecast also generated NBA TV’s second highest-rated regular-season game (trailing only this year’s record-setting opening night telecast between the Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers) and the third most-viewed game telecast. This year’s Lakers/Trail Blazers telecast ranks first overall with an average of 868,000 total viewers and last year’s Los Angeles Clippers/Lakers telecast averaged 756,000 total viewers.
Fan voting for the next NBA Fan Night telecast (Tuesday, Nov. 27) will be conducted from Tuesday, Nov.20, at 8 a.m. through Thursday, Nov. 22, at midnight. Potential game telecasts:
- Dallas Mavericks @ Philadelphia 76ers
- Phoenix Suns @ Cleveland Cavaliers
- Toronto Raptors @ Houston Rockets
- Minnesota Timberwolves @ Sacramento Kings
The Jump presented by Sprint – Tuesdays on NBA.com and NBA TV
The Jump presented by Sprint – hosted by Jared Greenberg with analysts Dennis Scott and Brent Barry and SLAM’s Lang Whitaker serving as a regular contributor – is a weekly show which is streamed live each Tuesday on NBA.com at 3 p.m. and debuts on NBA TV Tuesdays at 6 p.m. The show previews upcoming NBA games, provides analysis on storylines throughout the league and answers questions directly from NBA fans through submissions via NBA.com, the NBA Facebook page and Twitter.
Upcoming NBA TV Programming Highlights:
| Friday, Nov. 16 | 6:30 p.m. | The Association: Brooklyn Nets |
| Sunday, Nov. 18 | 6 p.m. | Cleveland Cavaliers @ Philadelphia 76ers |
| Monday, Nov. 19 | 3 p.m. | NBA.com Fantasy Insider |
| Monday, Nov. 19 | 6 p.m. | The Beat |
| Monday, Nov. 19 | 7:30 p.m. | Orlando Magic @ Atlanta Hawks |
| Tuesday, Nov. 20 | 3 p.m. | The Jump (Steaming live on NBA.com) |
| Tuesday, Nov. 20 | 6 p.m. | The Jump on NBA TV |
| Tuesday, Nov. 20 | 10 p.m. | AutoTrader.com Pregame Show |
| Tuesday, Nov. 20 | 10:30 p.m. | NBA Fan Night presented by Sprint: Brooklyn Nets @ Los Angeles Lakers |
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